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Manager, Marketing Planning And Strategy - External Marketing, Owned Media

Walmart

Bentonville, AR
Full Time
Mid Level
80k-155k
23 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Are you ready to help shape how sellers experience one of the fastest-growing eCommerce platforms in the world? We're looking for an External Marketing Manager to lead strategy and execution across Walmart Marketplace's key owned surfaces, including organic social, blog, and seller marketing site. In this role, you'll own execution of our organic social strategy and serve as the operational lead for coordinating blog and site content publishing across internal partners. You'll work closely with content, lifecycle, and creative teams to ensure a connected experience across the funnel, and build the foundational processes, reporting, and playbooks that help us scale. This role is ideal for a collaborative, detail-oriented marketer who thrives at the intersection of strategy and operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day execution of Walmart Marketplace's organic social presence, including scheduling, publishing, QA, tagging, and performance reporting.
  • Coordinate publishing timelines and delivery across Marketplace blog and site content, partnering with content, lifecycle marketing, and creative teams.
  • Build and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for social, blog, and site surfaces to ensure consistency, quality, and timely execution.
  • Partner with the Content Marketing Manager to ensure alignment with Marketplace's brand narrative, key messaging and editorial content priorities.
  • Collaborate with Lifecycle Marketing to ensure owned channels support key seller moments, from acquisition to growth.
  • Track and report on performance across all surfaces, surface insights, and recommend optimizations to improve acquisition and effectiveness.
  • Support testing initiatives to improve content format, timing, and channel strategy based on performance learnings.
  • Contribute to team planning and stakeholder updates by providing clear, actionable insights on owned channel health and performance.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience in social media, digital marketing, or content operations, ideally in a B2B or SaaS. Brand-direct and agency experience preferred.
  • Hands-on experience managing and publishing organic social content across channels like LinkedIn, Meta, Instagram, and others.
  • Strong project coordination skills and the ability to manage timelines across multiple work-streams.
  • Experience developing and maintaining marketing workflows or SOPs.
  • Strong analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to translate metrics into actionable insights.
  • Collaborative and proactive communicator, comfortable working across marketing, content, and business teams.
  • Passion for building programs that support entrepreneurial growth and create value for sellers.

Nice to Have

  • Masters in Business Administration
  • Experience in marketing or related field

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field and 1 year's experience in marketing or related field
  • OR 5 years' experience in marketing or related field

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive pay with performance-based bonus awards
  • Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • Financial benefits such as 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance
  • Paid time off including PTO, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
  • Other benefits like short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • PTO and PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
  • Live Better U education benefit program covering tuition, books, and fees

Working at Walmart

Walmart offers a collaborative environment focused on growth, innovation, and supporting entrepreneurial sellers. The company values proactive communication, operational excellence, and creating value for its partners and customers.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 3, 2025
Job CategorySocial Media
Salary80k-155k
Job TypeFull Time
ExperienceMid Level

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About Walmart

Website

walmart.com

Company Size

10000+ employees

Location

Bentonville, AR

Industry

Warehouse Clubs, Supercenters, and Other General Merchandise Retailers

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